Winsor & NewtonBrushMarker - Saddle Brown, Single, 204332

I cannot praise these markers enough, I absolutely love them, they’re super pigmented and easily glide over the page creating beautiful colours

I have a whole range of these pens and I love them, but my one gripe is that if you use them regularly, they don't last very long at all. I've had to buy quite a few of just this colour in the last 6 months and they aren't cheap!If you're just using it for detail it is 100% a great brush pen, but if you're going to be using it a lot or covering a large area, be prepared to buy multiple.

I love Windsor and Newton promarkers and brush markers, having used them for years. My poor pale pink ran dry so I ordered a new one online. I ordered one about a year ago and it has since built up ink weirdly on both ends of the nibs, proving to be rubbish to use when trying to colour with and the colour was no longer a pale pink and very uneven in coverage, rendering it unusable. I stored it the same way as my other markers (40+) and none of them have had this ink build up. Giving the sellers the benefit of the doubt, I ordered another and now I'm just disappointed, with the new one already having a dot of built up ink on the brush tip nib. A dot is annoying, especially towards the tip that I use against the page, but there's no guarantee it'll not end up like my other one. (Also the outer paper covering is damaged). Won't be buying online again.

Positivesthe brush tip is amazing, it allows quick coverage of larger areas that's streak free.The colurs blend easily and easily look.Layering, you can build up the layers to create different effects. The female picture I've added was one or two layers of almond with some blush, the male was several layers of dusty pink with some pralineDark tines can be used to for hairUnique colours, I recently also purchased all the spectrum noir illustrators and there was no colours in the spectrum noir that match the three light colours of the winsor and newtonNeutrals or things to noteEven tho this is a 6 pack it's really two 3 packs a very light set of 3 and a dark set of 3.NegativesAs stated the pack is effectively two 3 packs, very light and dark so it is missing a lot of medium tones. So anything you do is going to be either very light or brown which limits what you can do especially with the light colours (layering can help with the lighter colours).I'd like to see the pack expanded to 9 to include other tones winsor and newton do such as putty, champagne, sandstone etc. But this is a minor gripe as anyone who uses markers understands about building your own collections.Overall really happy with the pens even though the colurs haven't turned out to be what I was hoping it has let me see first hand the quality of the brush markers and they're capabilities at colouring skin. I have already added to my collection with more winsor and newton as well as some spectrum noir illustrator.The picture I've attached was my very first use of the markers and is a combination of all 3 light colours.

I've used these brushmarker for a long time. The brush head is great but as the years have gone on the black ink has become less dark. They also don't last very long.. I do live drawing at events and I would get through two of them in a day.

Both tips are really nicely shaped and soft, allowing for a lot of control and smooth application. These markers give the smoothest, most even and streak-free colour I've ever seen. Top marks for build quality.Of the six skin tones, the three lightest tones are definitely the closest to any skin tone, though they're also all a bit too similar in hue and feel a little redundant. The three darker tones are a bit too saturated and vivid to pass as realistic skin tones, though for more stylised or cartoonish work they're good, and way better than most attempts at dark skin tones I've seen from other markers. If the dark tones were just a little less vivid and if there was just a little more variation in the light tones, they'd be perfect; even as they are, these the closest I've found to realistic skin tones in a marker pen.However, the ink is unusually thin — even by the standards of blendable pens — and seems very prone to bleeding right through. On 170gsm paper, which is what I usually use for markers and sketching, the three darker tones bleed through every time and the three lightest tones all bleed a little bit, especially when blending. I don't like to waste paper and regularly use both sides, so this is a bit of a problem; these markers will absolutely ruin the other side of the paper.The colours are good (if not completely perfect) and they're nice to use, but for me they're going to be restricted to when I'm using 200gsm+ paper, only. If you mostly use heavier paper anyway, consider these to be 4-star.

Currently sitting on a mattress in a poppy field in England drawing a glove placed on a beach ball floating in a small abandoned paddling pool filled with diesel. Quite possibly the best brush pens I have ever used today. Never used brush pens before mind but these are great! EPIC times to be had😎

Use for college very happy with them